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Argo kit for Dob
If I read this thread right, you are getting the new 16" GSO dob? Cool.
The encoder kit installs well on the GSO, yes. Gary does good work. The kit is - obviously - dedicated to the GSO model in question. Since the 16" is a new scope, there may be nuances to the design that require a mod to the encoder kit (thicker ground board, etc) but Gary can use your scope and figure that out!
Gary's encoder kit for the GSO has a very nice high quality center azimuth bolt with a large flange on the underside and the encoder bearing well drilled out. That flange makes it very easy to install the bolt perpendicular to the ground board, but the plastic laminate on the particle board - as you screw in the mounting screws for the flange - wants to worm up and interpose itself between the flange and the board's surface. Unless you pre-drill and also ensure all that plastic laminate debris is all removed before securing the flange, it can lead to non-perpendicular insertion and subsequent precession of the bolt-encoder assembly: the tangent arm will grab.
But Gary knows all about that...he wrote the book, after all.
Yep, having him do it would be worth more than a few pizzas and 6packs.
If you can get him out at night with it, have him build your TPAS model, too. He could probably do that in about 10 minutes, while eating pizza with one hand and drinking beer with the other. Then every object in the known universe will be dead on in your high power EP FOV when you dial it in...
...but then again, perhaps one shouldn't drink and drive...
Scott
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